From May 1st to 2nd, Tsinghua University Vice President and Provost Yang Bin visited the United Arab Emirates to attend the Times Higher Education Asia Universities Summit and delivered a keynote speech. During the summit, Yang Bin also visited Khalifa University to discuss academic cooperation between the two universities. The…

Our ‘Sustainability Series’ continues with a look to the future for aviation fuel; we spoke to Jose Gerardo Gonzalez Barron, from the SBRC, who told us how fuel from halophytic plants is the way forward. Can you give us a brief overview of what you do as the Sustainable Bioenergy…

ABU DHABI, 10th April, 2019 (WAM) — The UAE Space Agency and Krypto Labs have announced today the two winning teams of the GeoTech Innovation Programme. The winners were awarded funding of AED100,000 in cash and AED500,000 in kind, as well as the opportunity to accelerate and transform their innovative…

RIYADH, 10th April, 2019 (WAM) — The Ministry of Education signed a Memorandum of Understanding, MoU, with the Ministry of Education of Saudi Arabia, to develop the digital education system, and several Emirati universities signed twinning agreements with their Saudi counterparts. The signing took place during the participation of an…

KAIST President Shin Sung-chul (right) and Arif Al Hammadi, executive vice president of Khalifa University (KU), take a picture after the opening ceremony for the KAIST-KU Joint Research Center on April 8. Korea and the United Arab Emirates (UAE) are strengthening their cooperation in the fields of the Fourth Industrial…

Artwork by Maritsa Kissamitaki 2019 Solar panels and wind turbines coupled with energy storage offer a better hope for tackling climate change than trying to capture carbon from fossil fuel power stations, according to new research published by Nature Energy. Carbon capture technologies – that is new, or as yet undeveloped,…

The biofuel facility at Masdar City in Abu Dhabi. ALSO IN THIS PACKAGE Abu Dhabi project supports economy, environment and food security Abu Dhabi: Imagine this: you are relaxing on board a flight enjoying a delicious seafood meal when a member of the cabin crew informs you that the succulent…

A team of researchers from MIT and the Masdar Institute of Science and Technology may have found a way around this seemingly intractable tradeoff between efficiency and cost. The team has developed a new solar cell that combines two different layers of …

Research by Emirati Dr Ibraheem Al Mansouri, assistant professor of microsystems engineering at Masdar Institute, could enable these semiconductors to be put to greater use. Dr Al Mansouri and his fellow researchers have developed a new and cheaper …